jlbooker

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by jlbooker 11mo ago
"unbecoming" is the first word that comes to mind. Can't say it really surprises me, though.
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by jlbooker 1y ago
It's a bit of semantics, sure, but there's a subtle difference. In something like Java, there's a very distinct complication phase, the compilation is successful (type checks pass) and the bytecode is shipped off, and someone
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by jlbooker 1y ago
> So they are useless. My car warns me even if i don't look. No, they serve a very specific purpose -- (attempting) to ensure the driver is at the controls and paying attention. Don't confuse the FSD attention "nag" w
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by jlbooker 1y ago
I remember a lot of, 'a sad lad had glad fad'. And then yes, it descended into nonsense from there on out.
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by jlbooker 2y ago
Probably a subtle push to sell the cloud-hosted Enterprise version. I bet the on-prem Enterprise will slowly stop getting all the latest-and-greatest features. Producing and supporting the on-prem version has extra costs, but probably doesn
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by jlbooker 2y ago
Here's a good follow-up video from the same news org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ICG0iaHqw Spoiler: They ended up dragging the husband through the (raging, debris filled) river after he hiked himself down the mo
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by jlbooker 2y ago
From Southwest 4Q and Full Year 2023 results [1]: > Full year 2023 operating revenues were a record $26.1 billion, a 9.6 percent increase, year-over-year > Full year net income of $498 million, or $0.81 per diluted share I'll say
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by jlbooker 2y ago
They make millions of dollars every year. They can afford the training, they'd just rather have better metrics and not pay for expensive training, just to make the stock look better.
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by jlbooker 3y ago
That would match with the leading mis-navigation theory. She and her navigator were fine and healthy, as was the plane. They were looking for the island to land on, but had messed up the navigation and were sufficiently off-course. There we
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by jlbooker 3y ago
You missed the joke. It's been so long now since HL2 that the joke is to find any implication of "3" (or even work back to three via vague associations between random things) and say "HL3 Confirmed!".
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by jlbooker 3y ago
How do you make "organic detergent"? Was it grown without synthetic pesticides, or...? I'm pretty skeptical of the word "organic" getting thrown around in marketing... so I'm really curious what makes a deterge
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by jlbooker 3y ago
This return a 404 now. Anyone have a better link?
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by jlbooker 3y ago
I was never impressed with Nouveau, mostly because I pretty quickly ran into this system-crashing bug that I've had open for six years. It's "high critical" importance, plenty of reproductions, log submissions, etc... no
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by jlbooker 3y ago
In the interview I asked the technical lead, "So, what sort of version control do you use?" Answer: "Well, we just open the file on the server and Vim will tell you if someone else has it open too." Nope, nope, nopity, N
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by jlbooker 3y ago
I guess you like those cookie warnings that pollute the Internet these days? Because this would be cookie warnings all over again. Any site that's reasonably popular uses a CDN to increase scalability, improve performance, and add reli
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by jlbooker 3y ago
The IBM MBAs have finally taken over Redhat. Anything to squeeze another dollar out, even if it's counterproductive in the long term. We knew it would happen. Honestly I'm surprised it took this long.
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Apple files plans for 324k sqft of office space at Research Triangle campus(wraltechwire.com)
1 points by jlbooker 3y ago|0 comments
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by jlbooker 3y ago
The yellow background is a bit abrasive, so I was happy to see a dark mode switch.. but yea, fuck me.
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by jlbooker 3y ago
SpaceX used to sell a version of this in their online store. I bought one for my son. I'm not sure what company manufactured it, but it doesn't seem to have an Estes branding. You can pick them up on eBay now, with a significantly
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by jlbooker 4y ago
I'd argue it's two different products with very different levels of support effort. Larger customers require much more time/effort than smaller customers. I could list an hourly rate, sure, but most customers don't even
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by jlbooker 4y ago
I'm the CTO of a bootstrapped SaaS product targeting the higher education market. We don't list a price on the website because there are many variables that affect the final price. Every school has their single-sign-on system, for
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by jlbooker 4y ago
It's very clearly Beta. No one claimed it's perfect/done/finished. Why is everyone so shocked that beta software has bugs? We can certainly debate whether it's ethical to put beta software out on the public roads. P
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by jlbooker 4y ago
Restore from off-site tape backup. The kind of service where you ship them ~dozen new tapes in a lockbox each week and they ship you the oldest dozen back. It's supposed to be the "if all of a data centers happen to burn to ashes
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by jlbooker 5y ago
> all teachers are represented by a union that negotiates on their behalf No, this is not true. Some teachers are represented by unions. In our state (North Carolina), public employees are prohibited by law from organizing into unions
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by jlbooker 5y ago
Ohh, and yes. We spent plenty ($100's) of our own money on school supplies at Wal-mart and teacher supply stores. The kids also had an extensive supply list that parents were asked to purchase, but it was never enough.
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by jlbooker 5y ago
My wife was an elementary school teacher. She worked 7am-4pm, then came home had dinner and time with the family. After our son went to bed, she'd spend 8pm-11pm grading papers and working on lesson plans for the following week. She al
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by jlbooker 5y ago
My wife also left elementary school teaching shortly after the pandemic. She had a child throw a sizable textbook at her, only missing her head by an inch or so. Felt the air as it wizzed by. She sent the kid to the vice-principal for their
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by jlbooker 5y ago
Not in all states. In my state (North Carolina), teachers participate in the public employees retirement/pension fund. However, public employees are prohibited by law from joining/forming a union. Yes, the get "summers off&qu
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by jlbooker 5y ago
The trials lasted long enough to gather the statistical evidence needed to show that the vaccine prevented the trial group from becoming infected (and that it was highly unlikely the trial group did better due to random chance). When that p
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by jlbooker 5y ago
> You'd think that the corporate overlords would prefer the machine to be working so they make money from the sales... And that's where the intrigue and accusations of foul play are coming in. It seems like McD's has mand

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